I promised dull house pics, and here, without further ado – are some dull house pics:
The bathroom is proceeding according to the plans: the builders having removed the floor with astonishing rapidity are now working towards the point where they can put it back:
One thing that this has revealed (apart from more, what appears to be inactive woodworm) is that, well, a professional electrician is worth his weight in faecal matter…
And I thought *my* wiring was untidy. That is a hideous, hideous mess. At least my junction boxes are fixed to things. And what worries me is that that junction box appears to contain both the ring-main and the lighting circuit. Or I think it does. At least, the circuit, well, it’s… oh anyhow. That disaster of a box is going to have to be examined.
And also, when he rewired, he clearly didn’t feel it was worth going to the effort of removing the old wiring:
That’s 1940s or 50s, rubber insulated wiring. The rubber’s completely perished, when you move it it just cracks and then sheds like a moulting rabbit; but it (thankfully) doesn’t appear to be live. I shall endeavour to remove some of it :-)
At any rate, the time is coming when I need to put the new bathroom in, which means ordering it :-)
Woot.
Oh, and found beneath the floorboards? A bit of 60s (?) packaging. Doesn’t beat the 1940’s Aviator cigarette packed my dad found in my parent’s house, but still :-)
